[CTyank]

I agree, yet I think we tend to believe that God intervenes more often than he really does.

God created us - but I think be tends to be hands off and allows us to achieve or fail on our own. If God’s hand was involved on behalf of Tim Tebow, his will has been done. Have we not all been debating or praising his will? When is the last time a major media outlet made his will the subject of numerous reports - for weeks?

[Roy Baty]

The more I think about it and the older I get, I've come to the conclusion that although there is unquestionably a God, He doesn't appear to be actively working in our lives. In that I am a deist. This differs from what my Bible church preaches.
Christians are being persecuted by muslims throughout the world, liberals in Hollywood and the press are pushing evil at an alarming pace, and His messenger Tim Tebow gets blown out and embarrassed. God is watching, no doubt and His plan is unfolding but in the final analysis, He works through us and we need to take action.

[Sudetenland]

God doesn't do for us what we should do for ourselves.

That's why I love Ambrose Bierce's Cynic's Dictionary of prayer:

"To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."God loves us and does us good, but he doesn't intervene in every aspect of our lives or in every detail . . . that would be a contradiction to his gift of free will. What he does is give us the ability to do for ourselves . . . we still have to do the footwork.